Album: I Abused Animal Track: 1 of 6 Title: I Abused Animal Artist: Heather Leigh Label: Ideologic Organ Cat SOMA023 Formats: LP/Digital Digital Release: 27th November 2015 Physical Release: 27th November 2015.

Complete your Heather Leigh collection. Heather Leigh ‎– I Abused Animal.

Heather Leigh’s past explorations of pain have been both disorienting (2007’s Devil If You Can Hear Me ) and enveloping (this year’s Nightingale ), but this time, on I Abused Animal, she dissolves her misery into a fine, translucent dust.

00:03:48) Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - Passionate Reluctance. 5. (00:07:08) Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - The Return. 6. (00:09:15) Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - Fairfield Fantasy. 7. (00:00:00) MACOSX/Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - 01. I Abused Animal. 8. (00:00:00) MACOSX/Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - 02. Quicksand. 9. (00:00:00) MACOSX/Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - 03. All That Heaven Allows. 10. (00:00:00) MACOSX/Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - 04. Passionate Reluctance. 11. (00:00:00) MACOSX/Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal - 05. The Return.

For an album that is, in essence, very stripped-down and direct (one woman singing and playing the lap steel guitar), I Abused Animal is possibly the most mysterious one I've heard all year. Heather Leigh hails from the coal mining part of West Virginia, but has lived in Scotland for many a year, and has somehow managed to coalesce the most primordial, intangible elements of both locales' musical tradition into a work of art that is wholly unique as to defy such pat words as "folk", "noise" or "drone"

Heather Leigh - "Quicksand" - I Abused Animal (2015, Ideologic Organ). 2 years ago2 years ago. experimental.

But Heather Leigh, whose new album I Abused Animal is a devastating entrail-sprawl of awe-inducing proportions, is very much at the top of the instrument’s game, both in terms of stretching its playerly parameters and expanding its free-flying capacities, leaving a virtual scorched earth in her wake. I Abused Animal, released in November on Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O)))’s Ideologic Organ imprint, is all the more potent for being Leigh’s first album of readily identifiable, yet fractally expanded songs, or song forms.

Album: I Abused Animal Track: 2 of 6 Title: Quicksand Artist: Heather Leigh Label: Ideologic Organ Cat SOMA023 Formats: LP/Digital Digital Release: 27th November 2015 Physical Release: 27th November 2015. About This Release: Show more. Now playing: Calvin Harris, Rag'n'Bone Man - Giant.

Renowned as a fearless free improviser, Leigh showcases her songwriting prowess on I Abused Animal, foregrounding her stunning voice and her innovations for the pedal steel guitar  . I Abused Animal was composed and performed by Heather Leigh. Recorded and engineered by Joe Gubay in Surrey, October 2014. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, July 2015.

Heather Leigh: pedal steel guitar, vocal All music composed and performed by Heather Leigh Recorded and engineered by Joe Gubay, Surrey October 2014 Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin May 2015 Photographs by David Keenan Spiritual adviser: Dean Roberts 'I Abused Animal' is Heather Leigh's first proper solo studio album after solo releases on labels Golden Lab, Not Not. Fun, Fag Tapes, Wish Image and Volcanic Tongue. Warmly recorded in a secret location in the English countryside, the album transmutes the power of her captivating live performances to a studio setting, capturing her tactile playing in full clarity while making devastating use of volume and space. I Abused Animal is a personal, idiosyncratic and deeply psychedelic work, ranging from almost Kousokuya-scale black blues through the kind of ethereal electro-ritual of Solstice-era Coil.